skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback!

1) Just trying to make the headline more interesting. There are actually a lot of really good themes out there.

2) Thanks for that, I'll see what I can do.

3) Yeah, I should be more clear on that. It is .erbs built with middleman. There are a few helpers for creating the side nav but it is pretty basic. Mostly, each page is in a separate file from the main layout. Email me and I'll send you the full package if you are interested.

4) Depends on how many people actually use this thing and provide feedback.
It is interesting to note that they require salary history to determine new employee's level which people on HN tend to not like.
>"They did based on what Apple and Samsung attorneys argued on the trial,"

Or did they based on what some over-bearing jury foreman argued, a man who wanted to prove a point with patents, and has a reasonable bias against Samsung? I think that's the point Groklaw are making. The more they dig in, the more it looks like this guy has and continues to have an agenda.

That said, how did the Samsung attorneys not weed this guy out pre-trial? That was a huge blunder.
From what I remember of that image, it was a Photoshop job where the exact same screen was found in Apple's marketing materials, but it was posted on Samsung's official website for the device for a period of time.
For anyone with a name that's prone to mis-spellings, this service doesn't seem like such a great idea.
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Toilet paper orientation (Knuth's contribution)
That looks like a "Computer Science" final exam. Software dev != CS.
Don't release more Open Source than you can maintain.
Actual link: http://webplatform.org/
Yeah, I noticed that too. Basically didn't want to put too much more work into the page until I saw if people were actually interested in it. I'll make that a lot smoother if there is enough continued traffic to the page. Thanks for the feedback.
Regenerative breaking doesn't use pads. It basically uses engine to slow down the wheels.
You can upload images...but rotation isn't preserved unless they're coming out of the user's Photo Stream bucket.

I think that hidden gem has a couple chips in it.
Between gmail and google voice, they know quite a bit about a lot of people's associations.
probably not any 2 engines though, right? I'd guess if the two engines on one side fail it can't recover, since it could only proceed with 1/6th capacity through the middle engines. (They have 6, right?)
As far as I know, maps come from the google apps package which is not customised by Samsung (it gets updated from the market). Is that not right? Also it looks very different from the version I have now, so it's strange in general. I've never seen rounded corners on a text field.

(see this for example: http://www.gadgetnutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/map.jpg - not similar to what's in the posted gallery)
A Brief Foray into the wonderful world of Linux..
So, following on from my previous post where I wanted a flexible GUI Linux install, I installed Ubuntu 12 LTS.

Coming from Windows 7 I am both impressed and slightly disappointed...but Linux and especially Ubuntu seems to have grown and matured alot since I last toyed with it.

I love the option to encrypt your home folder without having to install TrueCrypt! But I hate that I cannot press backspace to go back a page in Firefox, or even run 2 seperate instances of Firefox (with multiple tabs).

I hate that the stupid toolbar on the left actually sits on the left, and is so wide I have to auto hide it (used to this) but what I am not quite used to is having to drag my cursor straight off the screen to get it to show up.

I love how everything you need is up in the top right, and I love how everything worked straight off the bat...even Bluetooth works!

Ubuntu seems very quick indeed, which I also love but it will be interesting to see how it performs over time.
The 1/mile is just the cost for the service tech's to come to you when theres no maintenance center near you - http://www.teslamotors.com/own/service
...would cost me $1 per mile

That sounds stupidly expensive. Was that a typo? On a $60k car I'd expect to use it regularly and easily top 10k miles a year.
This is silly.

Apple is a monopoly with 100% of the iOS market and use that monopoly to shut any potential competitor out of the market. Can you buy ebooks from Amazon from Kindle app? No. Can you have a true Firefox browser on iOS? No. Can you buy apps directly from developers? No.

What ever Microsoft did in 90s, is nowhere near as bad as Apple today.
It would make sense. The pedal is probably electronic anyway, so the car would try to use engine for regenerative breaking, and use pads only when the break pedal is severely pressed.
You can choose to take a photo/video, or choose one from the camera roll. The standart camera roll view then opens.
Internal sources say t.co went down due to registrar error, which is highly unfortunate for Twitter as this was something out of their control.
It's better, but is "JON202555" $2.99 a month better?
This is why the second twin should put in $5000 every year :D
Indeed. I have found "guard clauses" with return/error at top of function to be clearer and less error prone.
You are seriously mistaken if you believe that a violation of your privacy is better from party A than party B. Both groups of people will fuck you over, it's only a matter of time.
Unmonday - Wireless Speaker with interesting physical UI
Just curious but if Apple is on this why is its logo not there along the others?
Information Systems (or IT, or MIS, or CIS) is not Computer Science. I made the same mistake: I was a lazy student and didn't want to do a lot of math homework, so I picked IT as it sounded a lot more 'practical' and 'hands on'.

I've slowly learned basic CS concepts since then on my own and working with others, and either some day I'll have time to fill in the gaps or I'll just continue to work in the "narrow area where [my] deficit doesn't matter."

I think the author has it backwards though, -he- is the one that works in a narrow area where the deficit does matter.
Inexperienced programmers consult documentation a lot and the more experienced you become, the less you consult documentation? If this were true, the initialism "RTFM" would never have been coined.
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I was unhappy with the Crunchbase UI so I wrote a web app with a clean and minimal UI.
I thought you guys would enjoy it. It's alphaish, but usable.
Good looking theme. I'm not if I could ever use it though, the license seems a bit restrictive for an admin theme.

Perhaps you can clarify, but as I read the license, it seems like I can only install it on domains I own, even if I purchase the Unlimited License. Since this is an Admin theme, I'd probably find it more useful installing it on domains I _don't_ own (for customer work).
to be fair: It's both. You need knowledge and smarts. If you know everything but you don't know how to apply anything to new problems, you're screwed. If you're a genius but you know nothing about computers, you're effectively incompetent at that point, and it'll take you a while to learn everything you need to know to solve the problem.
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That is nice, but I use vim. Any tutorial on how to do this from vim/MacVim?
This mistake was done by a store called Euronics in Italy. Samsung had no part in the design of this wall and it is the store's lack of understanding that should be in question, not Samsung's.[http://bit.ly/PP9V3M]
Money as fuel
Any 2 engines.

Side engine loss is compensated by its opposite side engine reducing thrust (along with those in-between - in ratio).

This leads to a longer burn and slightly greater fuel waste - but it is stable and was designed just for this very occasion.
"There was no effect on Dragon or the Space Station resupply mission." - Elon Musk

Just for those who didn't closely follow the events.
please let this be the end of w3schools
Homebrew-cask - install binaries programs ala brew
Poor man's DIY little printer
I was unhappy with the Crunchbase UI so I wrote a web app with a clean and minimal UI.
I thought you guys would enjoy it. It's alphaish, but usable.
A not-so-simple twist of fate: Nobel awarded for stem cell reprogramming
Wouldn't a "Purchase Now for $X" button work that only tracked clicks and returned a message: "Sorry, our product is in development now. We'll email you as soon as it's live."
Now if you could write tests that correctly determine which box a candidate fits in, you would have something very powerful indeed.
Whil ou are completely correct, it will be many years before I would trust having my Tesla (if I was getting one...) serviced[1] anywhere that doesn't have Elon's personal seal of approval. While the warrantee can't be voided for taking the car somewhere else, it can be voided if Tesla can show damage is a direct result if work done.

If I blow my engine after I put a NOS kit on it, I will likely have voided my warrantee. If I do it after putting a cold-air intake on it, I probably haven't voided it.

1. The tire-rotation thing seems silly, but perhaps doing it incorrectly will damage the regenerative baking system. If that's the case, don't ever get a flat tire in the middle of southern Utah.
Sorry but that's just categorically wrong. The leaf, just like every new car on the planet uses disks & brakes. A quick google search of Nissan Leaf brake pads will bring up tons of results for aftermarket replacement pads.
> automated testing

I love how they non-chalantly squeezed "automated testing" in there... because to really do well in that area you need so much more than the average handful of junit-or-whathaveyou tests and the whole "comes up with good test cases" is just extremely shallow. While developers do well to implement some simple unit tests, automated testing includes SO MUCH more they just left out. It is a whole software project and includes a lot more people than just "programmers" and "testers".

Another personal pet-peeve of mine are those endless suggestions of how to pick and hire developers, how can you get the very best of the best for the likely average salary you are offering to begin with - yet we have a continuous stream of coding-related horror stories.

It doesn't take any magic, it doesn't even take a catalog of weird questions that might work for google. Ideally go with recommendations, people who know people that are good. Or pick the interesting CVs and cover letters, avoid the buzzword rally. Then interview them and talk about what they have done so far and go into some details there, scratch on the surface, get a feeling for what they got going on. By now you should have quite a good idea. Then hire them on a temporary contract and see how they do. Be ready to give the new-comers and graduates a chance and be ready to invest in them, both in trainings and compensation.

IF you are in a position where you just cannot afford to put good faith in a common sense choice for a candidate then you should not be hiring in the first place because that means you either don't have the money for one more hungry mouth anyway or your project is so far into the death-march that another pair of hands is not going to rescue the sinking ship even if you get a true kernel-hacker to work on it.
I really like the idea of a way to measure my knowledge and skills. My preference would be for a directed knowledge graph, where nodes list the knowledge and skills fundamental to the nodes they connect to. This way, I could start from the bottom of the graph and place a checkmark on each node that I felt comfortable with. The end result would be an outline of what I needed to learn next to progress.

Alternatively, if I were in a rush to learn a specific item, the tree would give me a roadmap for getting there.

I'd be interested in a wiki-like interface for building such knowledge graphs, so that they could be built quickly and completely.
I bet you could turn that into a profitable book. HyperInk?
The Socratic Method Between Founders
> 13. Learn the difference between a detail (doesn't really make that much difference) and an issue (can end the world). Focus only on issues.

Good advice. So why do you give the same amount of attention to variable naming and early exits as to much higher level issues? I don't think the difference between Carmack and a random developer has much to do with adherence to coding standards.
wow that's interesting!
maybe they can't use logo yet
http://i.imgur.com/VdYXj.png
More info and a video from The Bad Astronomer (Phil Plait): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/08/sp...
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FaceBook should have "roles"
Yeah, the license is kind of messy but isn't meant to be. I need to fix that. Basically if you buy the unlimited, you can pretty much do whatever you want as many times as you want. I'll fix that tonight. In the meantime, feel free to email me and I can send you something better.
I have no idea why this isn't just your email address. For everyone I want to phone, I likely have this in my "Address book" (Gmail, outlook, whatever) already.

Let me define myemail@gmail.com -> some phone number (aka phone DNS?). Kind of like how Apple does it with iOS Messaging.

If you're concerned about spam, you could in the phone (or in the provider) set up a black/whitelist (allow calls from anyone in my address book).
Note additionally it's being reported that the secondary payload on this flight, an Orbcomm sat, did not get deployed into the correct orbit because the Falcon upper stage insertion burn failed. No info on whether or not this was a related failure. Info at the moment just seems to be social networks, can't find anything more solid: https://www.facebook.com/jsrpage/posts/10151048911726680
My lexical parser flagged the "apparently" as playful.
I doubt that docking with the ISS is the end-goal of SpaceX. Musk talks about missions to Mars, and even helping to establish a human presence there. The latter certainly hasn't been done before.

My point was that, even at the 10-year mark, SpaceX is still working towards its goal -- a goal that may very well not yield its results until after the 20-year mark.

While I appreciate that Musk stands out partly as an exception to the rule, I think it's nevertheless reasonable to concede that not all entrepreneurs are focussed on 2-year goals.
That might be an improvement, but you probably wouldn't want to use Array.map, which generally has pretty terrible performance. See http://jsperf.com/map-vs-native-for-loop/5
I'm impressed that they'd settle on IRC on Freenode for direct chat. Seems like the sort of thing that would not be improved by corporate lawyers for whatever reason.
Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others launch web technology reference website
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Wahh, I'm caught in a recursion. halp.
Actually, I can't tell you how many times a HN comment like yours has turned me on to an ultra-valuable related discussion that I would never have seen or thought to look for.

So don't let negative comments (perceived or actual) speak for us silent appreciaters!
Modern humans no more need to appreciate the economics of consistent 12% gains than they need to know how to fend off a polar bear, or how to date three supermodels on a modest budget--it just ain't gonna happen.
HN Parody
Hmm, I found the default Ubuntu interface somewhat lacking. Out of curiosity, I tried KUbuntu (12.04 LTS), and it seems to be just what I was looking for (flexible, highly configurable GUI interface; very stable and performant).
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Interesting. One thing that caught my eye was "someone who knows most of the tools from Scott Hanselman's power tools list." I had never heard of Scott Hanselman, nor his power tools list and had to look it up. Frankly, it looks useless to me as a programmer and looks more like a list of desktop gadgets, and watered down versions of tools bundled with most Linux distributions. He also doesn't mention anything for Linux (or OSX), nor Emacs. The list is very Windows specific.
Graphs are an interesting case in this debate. I agree that you very rarely run into real-world problems that look like a traveling salesman or bipartite test etc. But the thing about graphs is that they are the foundation of ALL data structures, and lots of algorithms. Lists, hashing, trees, arrays and more -- just special cases of graphs. If you can describe anything at all with a boxes-and-arrows diagram, it's a graph problem ;-) so if you know at least the core concepts of graphs, including some fundamental techniques (e.g. advantages of each representation such as adjacency matrix vs. node list vs. edge list), then you have the tools to work through any data structure problem; and any algorithm that's focused on searching or manipulation of specific data structures. And this can take you very, very far.

Once again, of course you can learn most of these foundational concepts more empirically, or in a more "bottom-up" way by starting with the standard data structures and algorithms that you use in practice, but gradually deducing general concepts that unify them. But I wonder if this can ever result in the same deep insight that some study of graph theory can give.
Not illogical: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting#Uncertai...
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i second that. however webplatform.org will need some serious SEO to displace w3schools. also, webplatform needs some serious work on their docs to make them readable and easy to search.
Given that you're only getting dozens of replies, why are you asking for institution? The only useful pattern I can think of would be something like correlating against university ranking, but that doesn't sound too useful.
Interesting. One thing that caught my eye was "someone who knows most of the tools from Scott Hanselman's power tools list." I had never heard of Scott Hanselman, nor his power tools list and had to look it up. Frankly, it looks useless to me as a programmer and looks more like a list of desktop gadgets, and watered down versions of tools you get for free with most Linux distributions. He also doesn't mention Linux (or OSX), nor Emacs nor vim. The great majority of the tools are Windows specific or Windows only (I caught one or two that weren't).
I saw this on 60 minutes last night. While there could be some truth to elements of it, the whole story just goes against so many things people in the US value, such as a free market. I think the best part of the whole story was the example of a man who was visited by federal agents due to his Huawei installation, and he saying something along the lines of "i had no other option, Cisco doesnt make everything i need, there are no other US companies that provide all the parts". He made a decision to buy the right level of cost & quality he required, and because of it gets visited by the government? Sounds a little insane to me, so much for the state staying out of other peoples business...
Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits
"we know we shouldn't buy theirs based on the fact they'd be stupid to buy ours" - every signals intercept group on the planet
It looks like he failed to provide relevant information during jury questioning.

That, and the lawyers from both sides have only limited time to investigate all of the candidates.

We can see clear bias now, after the fact. Samsung had to weed through a much larger haystack that featured much more obvious bias that they did catch.
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With the exception of W3C, all participants are listed in a fair alphabetical order. These egos are way too big to mess with!
It's these little routines that bring joy to one's existence. The sun rises and sets, I drink coffee in the morning and beer in the evening, you complain about CISPA coverage, patio11 complains about picodollars, I complain about the lousy state of scientific publishing in the internet era. It's the circle of life.
Hamming Distance, Hamming Code, Hamming Window off the top of my head. He was a busy dude.
Great list Ed.

About #17, one of my clients once told me he hired and kept me because I never outright, or in the beginning said no, and instead said 'let me think about it', or 'anything is possible relative to time and money'.

As guides to implementing technology, I think this is a fundamental skill.
Unlikely given that iPhone 1 launched with no SDK and Jobs claiming web apps were just as good. That it wasn't in that initial OS was bizarre enough - that it persisted until iOS6 is really odd.
Maybe if webplatform.org is mentioned in enough places, webplatform will have a better Google ranking and webplatform might displace w3schools.

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> Many people just want an iPhone, walk into a store, and end up buying some Android phone because they are told it's the same thing but cheaper.

Sorry, but that just sounds like the delusions of an Apple fanboy. If your theory had any truth to it, Android sales would've plummeted a year ago, when the iPhone 3GS became free on contract. But instead, the Samsung Galaxy S3, which has been selling for $200 (the same price as the latest iPhone) has had phenomenal sales.
So the basic conclusion seems to be "anxiety makes people perform worse". Hardly a new finding.
Not unusual for a high end car. In fact when I had a MB I remember very clearly having to pay for scheduled maintenance that iirc certainly approached $600 per year to maintain the warranty. BMW as others have pointed out includes all maintenance. This is essentially an economic decision on the part of the manufacturer. They could of course increase the price of the vehicle and give you free maintenance but then they would sell fewer cars. Although in general BMW cars actually are priced comparably to MB they have decided that they can sell more cars by including "free maintenance" than lowering the price of the vehicle (at least in the market that I am in it may be priced differently elsewhere).

http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/service_and_parts/maintenance/...

Cars today are very complex. It is not unreasonable for the manufacturer who is extending a warranty of 4 or 5 years to require you to do certain things to maintain that warranty.

Edit: And to require this to be done at authorized dealerships not the corner mechanic.